07 May, 2026
Battlefield 6 Season 3 launches on May 12 with a mix of long-requested content and another round of systems tuning. The headline addition is Railway to Golmud, a reworked take…
The U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on the 1st a rule overhaul considered the biggest change in the 100-year history of the Academy Awards. Through this…
Even as a massive Tove Jansson fan and seasoned cozy gamer, I’m not exactly the typical audience for Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth, thanks to one small quirk of mine: I hate…
New Head of Gaming at Microsoft, Asha Sharma, is certainly making it obvious she is all about changing the brand’s fortunes. We have had the cut in Game Pass price…
Source: Psychoflux Entertainment ‘ATYPIAN,’ a new story-driven adventure game from Team A_EGO that blends classic JRPG sensibilities with a cyberpunk setting, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to prepare for its…

Vampire Crawlers Demo Announced for Steam Next Fest and Xbox Game Pass in February 2026

Developer poncle has announced the first public demo for Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors, marking the earliest hands-on opportunity for players to try the studio’s first-ever spin-off to Vampire Survivors. The demo will be available beginning Feb. 23, 2026, as part of Steam Next Fest and on Xbox platforms, including Xbox Game […]

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Fable lets you enter and even buy any building in its world because that was one of the “requirements that we took from the original games,” dev says

The new Fable, this time rebooted by Forza Horizon maker Playground Games, is surprisingly faithful to Lionhead Studios’ original classics despite coming more than a decade after the last mainline game, right down to the fact that you can become a property hoarder and buy every single building in the open world of Albion. But […]

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MECHBORN Revealed: Curve Games’ Roguelike Deckbuilder Blends Mech Anime, Greek Mythology, and Kaiju Combat

London-based publisher Curve Games and developer Turtle Juice have announced MECHBORN, a new roguelike deckbuilder that blends visual and thematic influences from 1990s mech anime with elements of Greek mythology. The game is slated to launch in late 2026 on PC and consoles, with a pre-alpha demo currently available on Itch.io.   Set in a […]

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Arc Raiders devs have discussed special raids like high-value rounds where you have to bring in good gear, but “don’t want to segment the player base too much”

In player discussions of free loadouts in Arc Raiders, which are treated as an essential mechanic by some people and the devil incarnate by others, two solutions to this perceived scourge are often proposed. Developer Embark could guarantee that players using free loadouts spawn late into active raids, or the devs could offer exclusive raids […]

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Razer CEO claims “We’re unhappy with generative AI slop” after investing $600 million into the technology

Razer’s CEO, Min-Liang Tan, has claimed that players are “unhappy with generative AI slop” but are in favour of using AI tools in game development. In an interview with Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, the CEO of the company specialising in gaming peripherals weighed in on his view of AI being used in […]

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Sony Removes 1,200 Low-Quality Games From the PlayStation Store, Earning Rare Praise From Players

Sony has taken the drastic step of abruptly deleting roughly 1,200 games listed on the PlayStation Store. In most cases, when a platform holder mass-removes titles from its storefront, it tends to spark controversy over “censorship” or “regulation,” and invites user backlash. This time, however, gamers are responding unusually—pouring out cheers and support for Sony’s […]

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The Beatles: Rock Band devs were “sweating bullets” when they showed their version of John Lennon to Yoko Ono – “She’s like, ‘That looks stupid. He doesn’t act like that'”

The Beatles: Rock Band might have been the peak of the plastic instrument boom – a lavish passion project built in tribute to arguably the most influential rock and roll group of all time. The developers at Harmonix were serious about getting it right, and that meant enduring meetings with Yoko Ono where she’d tell […]

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Ace Combat 7 Surpasses 7 Million Copies Sold Worldwide, Series Tops 21 Million

Bandai Namco Entertainment Korea announced on the 16th that global cumulative sales of the flight shooter ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN have surpassed 7 million copies worldwide. With this milestone, total cumulative sales for the Ace Combat series have now exceeded 21 million copies.   To commemorate the 7-million mark, Bandai Namco has released a […]

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